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A Phobia is a Very Scary Thing to Have

My co-worker went out to her car yesterday only to find a garter snake sunning itself on the hood of her car.

Her phobia is so high of snakes that her first reaction was to scream and run. To make it worse, the snake decided to take up residence in her back seat, it slithered through her open door.

A kind passerby came and removed the snake but she was already impacted by the effects of her phobia: Her body was shaking uncontrollably, tears streaming down her face, having a hard time forming words into sentences, breathing was rapid.

A few people said to her “they (the snake) can’t hurt you”, but what they fail to understand that this is a phobia: a scary, uncontrollable, irrational fear that is intense!

The impact of phobias create a person to avoid things that they once enjoyed, feel unsafe where they once felt safe, the list can go on.

I have a phobia: SPIDERS, any size, any color, even cartoon ones that’s how great my fear of them is.

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Mary

I also have a great fear of spiders. I don’t like Halloween because the stores are full of ugly, scary, black spiders. They may be plastic but they still scare me. Even pictures are scary to me, I can’t even touch a picture of one. I understand how strong a phobia can be. It is paralyzing.

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